Word: victim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Attempting to cure addicts, the committee noted realistically, is a fearfully discouraging process. It involves "a painful and bewildering perplexity of treatment entailing difficult physical and psychological readjustment"; many a victim who has undergone treatment lapses into addiction again at the first temptation. The only real solution is to cut off drug supplies before innocents are victimized. Among the committee's recommendations...
Black & White Justice. Cases of assaults by white police on black prisoners are numerous. There have also been cases of torture. In one recent case in which the victim died, the policeman responsible was told he had shown "too much zeal." White murderers (except for poisoners) are seldom hanged. A man who shot another in cold blood and then tried to burn the body got four years. But a Negro who stole some cows got eleven years' hard labor. This month, seven white youths who beat an old Negro to death (because a friend of the Negro...
...sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
When an Indian from one of the 30 Guajiro tribes (each named for an animal) kills an Indian from another, the blood money, in goats or cattle, may run to high figures. The offended tribe can demand payment for 1) the original bloodshed, 2) the victim's agony before death, 3) the victim's actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored...
...Rochester police then made public LoDolce's year-old confession. Last week he partially repudiated the confession, saying that it was "incomplete" and adding, "The facts will prove that I am completely innocent." Icardi coolly stuck to his original story. Said he: "Major Holohan disappeared ... I am the victim of enemies in Italy . . . The whole 'cloak & dagger' story is untrue...